External firewire sony dvd burner

Hi guys:
Well, I'm trying to do a few things with my kid's old G3-400 imac (OS X 10.3.9), and so far I'm only to about first base. I picked up a cheap sony dvd burner & put it in a firewire enclosure. At first wasn't recognized at all, but running PATCHBURN fixed that. Now itunes will burn a cd which is nice. My problem, tho, is getting a DVD to play. I don't have mac's DVD player (system came pre-loaded wthout it), but have read somewhere that may not matter cuz it only works with internal dvds. I've also tried VLC media player.....no luck.
Anybody got an external DVD player working with older hardware & OS like this???
TM

I just connected my FireWire/USB 2.0 external Memorex 16x DVD±RW drive (drive manufactured by Lite-On) to a FireWire port on my iMac DV-400. The drive needed a PatchBurn profile, but I'm watching a DVD movie on it right now. It plays as smoothly through the FireWire connection as it does on the internal DVD-ROM drive, without a single dropped frame or any audio anomalies. As for using Pacifist - it's comparable to using WinZip to open a Windows CAB file and extract an individual file. You will need the Panther installer disk to extract the DVD Player program from it. For years, Sony's optical drives have been/are rebranded drives, manufactured by well-known companies. Their retail-boxed DRU-190A DVD±RW drive with the black bezel is manufactured by a different company than their more expensive, retail-boxed DRU-840A DVD±RW drive with the white/silver bezel (and additional black bezel). Unless you do some research, you never know what you'll get when you buy the "Sony" name.

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http://dvr.about.com/od/dvdrecordableformats/f/dvddlvsdouble.htm
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